Naked Protesters & Nude Activists

It’s not nude, but doesn’t the bondage angle add a sufficient prurient element? Here are some earnest Green Peace girls gagged:

Thanks to Bondage Blog for the picture.

Thanks to an alert reader for pointing me to this Yahoo News coverage of a recent nude protest against genetically modified foods:

From the Yahoo caption: “Naked protesters from the campaign group Barewitness.org, go to perform a protest against genetically modified foods, in Parliament Square, London, Sunday Nov. 16, 2003, prior to the visit of U.S. President George Bush next week.”

A nice diversity of body types and pretty smiles here. Again, as is all too common, I don’t have any data on who the protesters are or exactly what they want.

Here are a couple of ladies who are unclear on this whole naked protest concept. “We shaved our pubic hair. Read our lips. No more Bush.” On a sign?

C’mon, you expect us to believe that? Talk about half measures! Lame….

The always-reliable and frequently-pretty PETA girls are at it again, this time stripping down and chaining up in sympathy with the logging elephants of Thailand.

But wouldn’t this protest be more effective (not to mention more visually interesting) if she took this outfit outside and wore it while dragging a teak log down the street on the end of a chain?

Unfortunately, this is another picture without context. There’s obviously a protest going on, but more than that, we do not know:

However, more naked protesters should be as pretty as this!

According to this link, the London protests were supposed to include mass moonings of President Bush. Did it happen? Does anybody have pictures? C’mon, the world waits!

Thanks to Shell for sending along the link.

Another picture lacking in backstory. This cute lady has the look of a celebrity about her, and if you study the image she’s sitting in a car on a public street. This looks to me like one of those “appear in public with our mouths taped shut to protest the censorship of fill-in-the-blank” scenarios:

Thanks to Bondage Blog for the photo. By now you know the drill, write in if you know the story behind the picture!

No background for this picture, alas, although the URL on the nude guy’s back appears to be for the PETA spinoff vegan site goveg.com:

Anybody know date and place and details?

Pieter from South Africa writes to let us know that this picture is, as suspected, not real. He says it’s from a South African movie made by Leon Schuster – the beggar on the left in the picture. Thanks Pieter for the straight dope!

Here’s a photo which makes up for its lack of nudity by its earthy message: “Bombing for Peace is Like Fucking For Virginity.”

The picture has a certain staged artistry about it, but it’s amusing for all that.

Presumably from the same protest as this photo, we have two lovely nude British ladies in body paint that looks like fetching riding costumes:

Thanks to Power Line for the photo.

We are deeply indebted to Bas, who very kindly sent along these photographs he took of anti-fur protesters in Antwerp, Belgium. Bas reports that he took the photos on October 4, 2003. These attractive folks were shouting “Liever naakt dan in bond!” which means “I prefer naked over fur!”

Bas, thanks ever so much for sharing your pictures!

Here’s a picture of some anti World Trade Organization protesters who stripped naked, poured fake blood on themselves, and cavorted on American flags. According to this article, the event took place in Sydney, Australia, in 2002. The lovely young ladies in question are identified as Anna Clark (19), Amy Minshull (22), and Anne-Lise Ahfat (18).

Has anybody got a bigger better picture of this event? I’m sure the readership would enjoy a closer look at these girls.

Obviously NakedProtesters.com does not agree with many of the sentiments in the letter that follows. In our view sexuality is in the eye of the beholder. If someone shares their nudity with the world in an effort to get attention, they can’t complain when the observers say “Hey, that’s sexy!” (Or rather, they can complain, being free people; but they should expect to be laughed at for it.) Furthermore, we utterly reject the suggestion that nudity, or celebration of it in any form, including this one, is degrading to anyone or encourages “rape and other forms of criminal behavior.”

Having said all that, here’s a letter we recently got:

I checked out your web-page as I am a subscriber to the Bodyfreedom.org newsgroup.

As I am interested in helping social and public nudity gain some social credibility, I do not feel that having links to commercial porn sites gives you the right idea about nude demonstrations.

Most social activists (particularly the women), although they are not prudes or anti-sex, do not like pornography as they feel that it is degrading to men and women as well as encouraging rape and other forms of criminal behaviour.

Bodyfreedom is about helping to restructure social and political attitudes to help create a more understanding, just, and honest human race.

It is not about promoting sexual vilification or promiscuous sex, and we have a hard enough time trying to convince people that naturism and public nude recreation is not a perverted practice and is not about sex except in appropriate settings.

Regards, Dario Western (Larrikin70)

PETA is at it again – this time with some hunky guys for your ogling pleasure. Sorry ladies, no full monty pictures seem to be available. Will someone please tell these naked protesters that hiding behind their banners spoils the effect?

These respectful gentlemen include Hungarian Zsolt Kopre, and they are shown protesting in London outside Buckingham Palace, in late October 2003. They object, it seems, to the bearskin hats of the Queen’s Guard.

Shell from Across the Atlantic very kindly wrote in with more information about the Chilean naked protester being hauled off by the lady cops in this picture. She blogged it even before Bacchus did, but the post alas did not survive when she merged her blog with The Group Captain’s. She confirms the Chilean connection reported here and adds that the Chilean protestors had a permit to protest the Iraq war in a park. Of course they could not contain their enthusiasm within park boundaries, so when they decided to take their show on the road, they were arrested. Shell’s original blog post title: “Keep Your Naked Asses In The Park.” Thanks, Shell!